Italian doctors call for protecting healthcare workers and boosting community surveillance during covid-19 outbreak
Filippo Anelli, Giovanni Giuseppe Leoni, Roberto Monaco, Cosimo Nume, Roberto Rossi, G. Marinoni, Gianluigi Spata, Donato De Giorgi, Luigi Peccarisi, Alessandro Miani, Ernesto Burgio, Ivan Gentile, Annamaria Colao, Maria Triassi, Prisco Piscitelli
Abstract
Italy is in a dramatic situation owing to the spread of covid-19,1 but we could do more to protect medical doctors and all hospital workers, including nurses, therapists, technicians, and support staff. Beyond the personal risks that doctors and healthcare workers are facing directly—highlighted by the death of general practitioner and national delegate for continuous medical education Roberto Stella in Varese—hospitals and medical personnel are a potential vehicle for spread of covid-19.2 The New England Journal of Medicine has reported on the huge proportion of infected …